Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
PEMA CHODRONDon’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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